Ontario MPP Sarah Jama has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Premier Doug Ford over what she is calling “defamatory” remarks that accuse her of having a history of antisemitism.
Ontario MPP Sarah Jama has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Premier Doug Ford over what she is calling "defamatory" remarks that accuse her of having a history of antisemitism.
On Oct. 11, Ford posted a statement on social media that called for the Hamilton-Centre MPP’s resignation. The cease-and-desist letter says the public comments have done serious harm to Jama’s reputation and imply that she is racist towards Jewish people and sympathetic to terrorism.Jama is about to be censured by the Progressive Conservative government over statements she made on social media that called for the end of “all occupation of Palestinian land,” as well as an end to the “apartheid” in the region.
The following day, Jama apologized and condemned the “terrorism by Hamas” while also noting that she believes that “Israel’s bombardment and siege on civilians in Gaza, as was also noted by the United Nations, is wrong.”
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